If talking about the the Premium section, I tend to choose wait-for-free series from here. Most of the time I read them after waiting, and buy their last several episodes (not-unlockable by waiting), only if I really liked the series. Even more often I just drop them at some point. There are always some exceptions, though.For example, I've bought near the half episodes of "Crimson Tracks", when they were on sale. Also I've bought nearly a quarter of "Villains" episodes. If these creators have made a good work, which has been able to capture my attention, why not?But in general, I certainly prefer to spend an ink for tipping small, not-premium authors.

I absolutely do, all the time.We pay for every other form of entertainment, it’s ridiculous to me how people treat comics as if they should be anything different. Tapas has done a truly wonderful job at selection, too? I love non-premium comics, of course, but I’ve very very rarely seen any that reached the quality of premium comics both in art and writing. Similarly, I’ve rarely spent money on premium comics and ended up not enjoying the story. Artists deserve to be paid, it sucks how little people are willing to see that, it sucks seeing people complain and whine about needing to pay literally like, a few cents per episode? Just take that $20 you were going to spend on watching a movie and put it into tapas, you’ll literally get months worth of content.

I sometimes have a day where I run a load of ads on the side while I do other stuff, to gather up ink to buy full packages of episodes. Lets you binge it later.

I think most people who complain about premium not being free are usually either very young or don't think art should count as a job. In the former case, they just haven't learnt to understand the connection between time spent (and the many years and tons of money that went into forming the skill to produce this type of content) and money received. Usually they will change their minds a couple years into adult life, having experienced the concept of "time spent = money" from the worker's end.

In the latter case, there isn't much we can do. Usually these prejudices are brought down through generations of selfish entitled people who think that only services and actions they deem valuable and legitimate deserve payment. They expect entertainment to be produced for fun, in our spare time, and given away for free. Because it's a fun job so of course it can't be a real job. Us idiot artists should just go get a REAL job, right?Nah. But that's what they think. It's impossible to reason with people like that.

Some people are also just plain entitled. You encounter these in any business. Restaurant personel, for example, have to get used to politely declining customers that attempt to haggle their way to free beer, free meals, pretend they didn't like a meal after they already ate all of it to avoid payment etc etc. People who legitimately do not care about the consequences their cheapskate behavior has for other people, as long as they sneak their way out of having to pull 10 bucks out of their wallet they are happy.

The next step in entitlement is thievery. Deciding that not only should you not have to pay, but noone should and you shall become the pirate jesus by providing the people with the free content they deserve!! And from there, you get pirated content.Or, in the case of restaurants... That one time I watched a customer trying to wander out with one of our salt shakers stuffed in his back pocket...

Scurry is a dark fantasy animal comic about a colony of mice in an abandoned house who are struggling to survive a long, strange winter. Being hunted by feral cats and predatory birds is part of life for these mice, but beyond the fences stalks...

+18, MATURE READERS. DESKTOP VERSION FOLLOWING AFTER MOBILE VERSION, IN THE SAME FILE!!! UPDATES: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY.Kings Club Graphic Novel Volume 1: digital-first. An Italian mafia boss' daughter has to prove her skills during a clan...

Third Shift Society is a supernatural action comic about two paranormal detectives: Ellie, a plucky 20-something who recently discovered her own otherworldly powers; and Ichabod, a calm, intelligent man who happens to have a pumpkin for a head....

...and so many more... and then using my available ink to support them is a choice, MY choice... not a consequence of "prejudices" or "entitlement".

Where I live there are no ads Ink. Ink IS money for me.And yes I do read 1-2 premiums comics.Any support I get I count as cash and is very happy to receive ( even if I know it is ads ink, bc for me, I count it as money.)

I've so far only bought one series, The Extreme Dog owner but I intend to finish reading most the wait to read comics I have going on rn. I also bought a few episodes of Crimson Tracks which I'm reading with the waiting method as well because I was left in such a cliffhanger part, lol.

I'd happily purchase more episodes but it's so hard for me to get ink for free since I cannot really afford paying money to get ink. I get barely any ads and if I do there might be just one or two, I can't watch the demos and most of the time I'm not in the "intended target group" for surveys. I guess I should get the free ink from playing the game (I tried) but I don't enjoy the game at all.

There's one series I don't mind unlocking episodes for when I have spare gift ink that will expire. Ad ink I save for tipping events.I WOULD buy ink if only I had more disposable income. But alas, I'm a poor artist.

i agree that artists and writers not only need but deserve compensation for their work, and i hope to soon be in a situation where i can liberally, directly, support my favourite creators

that said, im not willing to buy premium episodes usually just because the premium stories just dont appeal to me and arent worth the effort of gathering coins - generally ive grown up averse to paying for media, which im starting to feel is an impulse i need to reverse, but it pushes me away from stuff i cant at least preview for free and the things i pay for are usually the things i really love / value.

in @LordVincent defence - as ive had this conversation with him before - i dont think hes talking about people who just dont read premium, but rather talking about the people hes encountered who get angry at him for producing premium content.

not consuming content you have to pay for is fine - as i said earlier, most of the premium comics arent worth the bother for me - but complaining that paid content isnt free betrays the entitlement vince is talking about.

that said, i agree with you that anyone harbouring disdain for people who avoid premium generally would leave a bad taste in my mouth, and i find the most exciting work on the free side of wall as well (given premium has a bit of the same gatekeeping safe decision making as oldschool publishing). but i do think people who create work for free still deserve compensation and that people who can support them and enjoy their work should feel compelled to give them direct support.

I buy what I like to read, and it's generally not premium comics.If I come across one that I most likely will like, I would pay for it.However, I think it's most likely going to happen with wait for free, because I can delay the time when I pay: not for money reason but for support reason. I would hate to support an artist and then realize the comic is promoting nauseous ideas etc.. I like to support, but I like to know what I support.Also, I would like to be able to give ink to anyone. I can think of small comics I would like to support, and I would probably be quite generous for some. This is a bit a shame to not be able to support everyone, even these who are not very successful (yet).

@punkarsenic That's also how I understood @LordVincent message. It was clearly addressed to people who complain that it should not be paying, no to people who choose to read something else.

You read my post entirely wrong. The people i talk about when I spoke of entitlement are not people who merely choose not to purchase premium content. That is fine. As a consumer you are entirely entitled to that choice.

What you are NOT entitled to is paid content without paying. If an artist states a price, you accept or move away. You don't haggle, you don't moan, and you certainly shouldn't (and this is something i experienced) attempt to start a mob against the seller to bully them into releasing it for free. THAT is entitlement and that is what I was referring to in my post.

People have literally used guilt, threats and other manipulation methods to try to get me to release my premium comics for free. It is ridiculous.

Oh yeah, no that is definitely a valid reason. I run into that one quite a lot. When it comes to a lot of exclusive/expensive products, it's a matter of the product finding the right customer rather than as many as possible.

For example I ended up paying probably around $300 for a exclusive dakimakura from one of my favorite series. If it had been almost any other series, I would have never considered it worth it.